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November 24, 2024, 1:01 AM
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Financial Times:
Similarweb: Bluesky app usage in the US and UK grew ~300% to 3.5M DAUs after Nov. 5; Threads now has 1.5x Bluesky's DAUs in the US, down from 5x before Nov. 5  —  Social media giant's Threads app makes changes as smaller competitor to X surges  —  Meta's Threads is losing ground …
Christine Lemmer-Webber / Dustycloud Brainstorms:
ActivityPub co-author on Bluesky and ATProto being neither decentralized nor federated, and how Bluesky is building a good X replacement with a “credible exit”  —  Recently due to various events (namely a lot of people getting off of X-Twitter), Bluesky has become a lot more popular …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: TikTok CEO Shou Chew, who has known Elon Musk for several years, has sought Musk's counsel in recent weeks on the incoming Trump administration  —  Popular video app and Chinese parent ByteDance view rival social-media owner as conduit to the president-elect
New York Times:
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner says China-linked Salt Typhoon group listened to phone calls and read texts by hacking US telecom networks  —  The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said hackers listened to phone calls and read texts by exploiting aging equipment …
New York Times:
Sources: the US government launched an investigation into the Salt Typhoon hack after Microsoft alerted it and telecom companies about anomalies
Hugh Son / CNBC:
Customers of banking startups like Yotta describe losing savings ranging from $7,000 to $200,000+ due to Synapse's collapse, after US regulators refused to help  —  For 15 years, former Texas schoolteacher Kayla Morris put every dollar she could save into a home for her growing family.
Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal:
Six months into a deal with OpenAI, Spanish bank BBVA says staff created 2,900+ GPTs and reported productivity gains, but questions ChatGPT's scalability  —  The bank is evaluating its next steps after seeing early productivity gains from OpenAI's enterprise tool
Sam McKeith / Reuters:
Australia drops plans to fine internet platforms up to 5% of their global revenue for failing to prevent the spread of misinformation online  —  Australia's government said on Sunday it had dropped plans to fine internet platforms up to 5% of their global revenue for failing to prevent the spread of misinformation online.

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The Guardian:
A reconstruction of the events that led to Ukrainian reporter Victoria Roshchyna's detention and death in Russia; forensics suggest “numerous signs of torture”

Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Source: the Los Angeles Times had a roughly $50M loss in 2024, following a $30M loss in 2023, and has lost about 25,000 paid subscribers since September 2024

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting sues the Trump administration, accusing it of illegally trying to fire three members of its board on April 28

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Reuters:
An investigation finds several women across the US were deceived, drugged, terrorized, and sexually enslaved by sex traffickers to make money from OnlyFans
Bloomberg:
Jensen Huang urged global cooperation and highlighted China's contributions to AI, as he accepted an honorary doctorate degree in engineering in Hong Kong

Earlier Picks

Carly Page / TechCrunch:
Palo Alto Networks says it has observed exploitation of two zero-days in its PAN-OS firewall OS; researchers say hackers have compromised 2,000+ firewalls
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft releases the first beta preview of its Recall AI feature for Copilot+ PCs, including Click to Do, a feature similar to Google's Circle to Search
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Researchers detail a “nearest neighbor attack” by Russia's APT28, which remotely breached a target's Wi-Fi by hijacking a laptop in a building across the street
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Threads is testing AI-generated summaries of what users are discussing, in the app's Trending Now section in the US, and Search and Trending Now improvements
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Anthropic raised another $4B from Amazon, will make AWS its primary training partner, and is working with Annapurna Labs to develop new Trainium accelerators
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